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This website is yet another local Church here in Wilmington. Port City is considered a "Mega Church" and offers 4 services on Sundays!

This is a wonderful Church only walkin distance from the beach!

This blog includes pictures and diagrams on how MBT shoes affect the foot and back. The researcher had had knee pain after a stay in the hospital and started wearing MBT shoes for walking and they actually relieved his knee pain! This blog is great because it shows the biomechinal side of the MBT shoes and then a personal experience, which gives feedback on the quality of the shoes.

This is a website that you can use to upload your scores and performances on certain workouts/exercises and use a way to gauge your fitness levels compared to other athletes or friends.

This site features a blog on knee injuries and rehab and goes over some key aspects that are needed for a full recovery. It expresses goals, and program tips to better aid in a safe and effective rehab program.

This is a great website that goes over some manual therapy techniques as well as introducing some weight training and stretches that help in the healing process of the knee. It takes into consideration the overall goal of the patient in the rehab process and allows the therapist to get hands on treatment instead of just exercises.

This is another part of the knee guru site that shows the overall anatomy of the knee and some other general information on the knee and how it should be treated and cared for before and after surgery.

This website has a wide variety of information about all the things dealing with knee surgery and the recovery process. It ranges from the immobile phase, until being able to walk again.

This cite gives some strengthening exercises for the knee after the basic range of motion has been met. These exercises are geared more toward helping the patient progress to be able to walk normally once again.

This cite gives a Physical Therapy worksheet for knee exercises that can, and should be progressively done throughout the rehabilitation process. Not only shows with a picture how the activity should be done, but also gives a description of the proper way to go about performing the exercise.

This website gives specific information on the treatment and care of multiple knee injuries and leads you to other places to find out what treatment may be best for your situation. It focuses primarily on the surgery of the knee and then explains the rehabilitation process.

This site goes over some basic functional aspects of the knee and how you can best maintain or regain strength after a trauma to the area. It gives some tips on goo exercises that allow for range of motion, but don't stress the joint. The cites specifically deals with cycling and it's major benefits to the rehabilitation of the knee.

Shows some step by step, easy exercises for at home care of an injured knee.

The NIH did an experiment on the effect of instable shoes in short and long term cases. They found that these shoes do show that the instabliity serves as a motor constraint forcing your muscles to work harder than in normal, even soled shoes.

This experiment tests an unstable shoe (MBT) versus a regular shoe. It showed that there was not much of a difference in the working of muscles wit he MBT shoes, but showed several muscles showed some trends of the amount of work some muscles were doing with the MBT shoe.

This article was great because during my research on Skechers Shape Ups, I came across another type of fitness shoe called MBT. After doing more research on these shoes, I found out that they are beneficial to those with joint pains and help eleviate stress on the lower extremity of your body. This website is a website full of "wandering educators", people that are curious about various topics.

A woman decided to try the shape ups, and overall liked them! Blogs like this give me feedback on society's view of these shoes, and with willing testers like this, it makes it easy to understand what people think after trying them out.

This article discusses the unstable shoe designs of the MBT shoe, Skechers Shape Ups, and even discusses barefoot options to eleviate joint paint. They offer data gathered by biomechanics and neuromuscular experiments as well.

This was a study done by the University of Wisconsin determining whether fitness shoes (MBT, Skechers Shape Ups, or Reebok Easy Tones) were effective or not. It gives scientific data to support their conclusion. Great website to use for information for my PLN. There is a link to the actual study which is in PDF form here as well.